High School

May needs 5 metres of cloth to make a dress.

How many such dresses can she make with 15 metres of cloth?

Answer :

To determine how many dresses May can make with 15 meters of cloth if each dress requires 5 meters, we need to use division.

  1. We know that each dress requires 5 meters of cloth.

  2. May has a total of 15 meters of cloth.

  3. To find out how many dresses she can make, we divide the total length of cloth by the length needed for one dress:

    [tex]\text{Number of dresses} = \frac{\text{Total cloth}}{\text{Cloth per dress}} = \frac{15 \text{ meters}}{5 \text{ meters per dress}}[/tex]

  4. Performing the division, we get:

    [tex]\frac{15}{5} = 3[/tex]

So, May can make 3 dresses with 15 meters of cloth, as each dress takes 5 meters.

This is an example of a simple division problem commonly found in middle school mathematics, where the total amount of a resource is divided by the amount used per item to find the total number of items that can be produced.